Dinner

After the destruction of the old woods in Europe, the trolls, witches, fairies and goblins had nowhere left to go. Thus they did what so many others had done before them: they moved to Los Angeles.

Jack, a goth fairy tale fetishist, falls in love with Jill, the daughter of the Russian cannibalistic witch, Baba Yaga.

He must enter Baba Yaga's hut to face impossible quests, hideous monsters, a convenience store troll and even a junkie fairy to win his girlfriend's hand in marriage.

Featuring immigrant fairy tale characters living in L.A., Dinner is a film that I finished in 2000.

The film takes the flavor of old Slavic folktales, and juxtaposes it against modern Los Angeles. It is a dark, urban, gothic fairytale.

I was Producer / Director / Co-Writer / Editor / Special Effects on the film. It was shot on 35mm and premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival January, 2000. It took over 2 years to complete. It was my USC graduate thesis film.

After playing at a number of film festivals, it was released on DVD, on a collection called Fusion One, by Indie DVD.

Dinner also played on the Sci Fi Channel, on the series Exposure. Here is my interview from the show.

The film is 19 min. 41 sec. long, and the download file is 31M large.

Dinner's IMDB Page with cast & crew info. Buy Dinner from Amazon.com!

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